Women in Music
Connie Francis: Connie Will Rock For Britain!
Interview by Alan Smith, NME, August 1962
THERE'LL BE no more weepie-weepie songs from Connie Francis once her current hit 'Vacation' leaves the charts... for Connie is to record special future releases ...
Marianne Faithfull: Fairy Tales Can Come True — Look at Marianne Faithfull
Interview by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, July 1965
WELL HERE we go again. This time we're off to an exclusive interview with a girl who looks like a refugee from a fairy tale ...
Dusty Springfield: Life + Laughs = Dusty Springfield
Interview by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, November 1965
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD'S voice came over the house phone: "Why don't you come on up to my manager's room? I'll be up in a few minutes. ...
Cilla Black: Cilla on Marriage
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, April 1966
'THE QUEEN HASN'T DONE TOO BADLY – BUT IT'S NOT YET FOR ME!' ...
Janis Joplin, Big Brother & The Holding Company: Janis Joplin: Singer With The Bordello Voice
Profile and Interview by Al Aronowitz, Life, September 1968
IF YOU HAVEN'T heard of Big Brother and the Holding Company by now, you're going to miss your chance. ...
Dusty Springfield: Five Great Years of Dusty
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, November 1968
ON NOVEMBER 5, 1968, Dusty Springfield celebrates five years as a solo star. ...
Big Mama Thornton: Stronger Than Dirt (Mercury)
Review by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, November 1969
ANYBODY WHO has ever seen Big Mama Thornton perform will vouch for the fact that she is a consummate entertainer. So good, in fact, that ...
GTOs, The: The GTOs: Permanent Damage (Straight/CBS)
Review by Miles, International Times, February 1970
IT'S NOT TOO difficult to reject the spectacle of Hollywood, to drop out, find yourself, re-evalue your ideas, unless you LIVE in Hollywood. What if ...
Overview by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, June 1970
I'M NOT sure why, but I'm more often moved by men singing than by women. Somehow I can identify with a much larger range of ...
Janis Joplin’s Full-tilt Boogie Ride
Report and Interview by David Dalton, Rolling Stone, August 1970
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky – Janis Joplin and her newly-formed band, Janis Joplin Full-Tilt Boogie, debuted here June 12th, their first gig since they started rehearsing together ...
Profile by Richard Williams, Times, The, January 1971
THE CURRENT STATE of pop music allows its performers to make the most naked personal statements. Only an artist with considerable character, though, can keep ...
Rita Coolidge: Now The Delta Lady Is Out On Her Own
Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Melody Maker, May 1971
DURING THE Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour, Joe Cocker each night would take the microphone and announce "Here she is, our own Delta Lady, Rita ...
Fanny: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, New York Times, May 1971
Fanny, a Four-Girl Rock Group, Poses a Challenge to Male Ego ...
Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, October 1971
WELL, LET'S SEE...first there was Goldie and the Gingerbreads and the UFO's. Then Cake, who were merely New York's answer to the Ronettes, and the ...
Press Release by uncredited writer, RCA Records, November 1971
THE SUMMER IS probably the best time to go down there, to the far reaches of the west West village. It's really calm, quiet and ...
Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Creem, November 1971
SEEING FANNY live after hearing Charity Ball leaves two possibilities: either the group doesn't know the first thing about recording or Richard Perry is a ...
Review by Ellen Sander, Saturday Review, November 1971
NO ONE would argue that Wildflowers and In My Life are classic albums; sheer, strong marriages of new art music and new classicism, ambitious and ...
Aretha Franklin: Greatest Hits – on Atlantic and Columbia
Review by Pete Wingfield, Cream, December 1971
ON ATLANTIC: Greatest Hits illustrates the power that fourteen condensed, concise, definitive musical statements can exert – particularly in the soul/R&B field, totally geared until ...
Helen Reddy: Weekend Ever Reddy
Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, February 1972
A VERY HEAVY American biography on Helen Reddy comes on with excessive amounts of material on the supernatural, her beliefs in ESP and parapsychology* until ...
Interview by James Johnson, NME, April 1972
ACCORDING to Judee Sill: "Out of the mud grows a lotus". In other words something beautiful comes from something unpleasant. The phrase applies well to ...
Judee Sill: A Sill-y Story: Judee Sill
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc and Music Echo, April 1972
JUDEE SILL is quite a remarkable woman. When you consider her past it becomes apparent just how remarkable. She lost both her parents and her ...
Joni Mitchell: An Interview (part 1)
Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, June 1972
THE LADY who walks on eggs is sitting in her hotel suite overlooking St. James' Park with her legs tucked up, her chin resting on ...
Joni Mitchell: An Interview (part 2)
Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, June 1972
LAST WEEK Joni Mitchell spoke for the first time in over two years about why she virtually "retired" from the music scene during a period ...
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas: Martha Reeves Goes Solo
Report and Interview by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, July 1972
MARTHA REEVES is going solo. After 10 years fronting one of Motown's most successful groups, Martha and the Vandellas, Miss Reeves is stepping out alone. ...
Interview by Tony Stewart, NME, November 1972
DRIVING OUT of London in his sparkling red Citroen, bound for Manor Studios, Oxfordshire, John McCoy talked about his girl Claire Hamill in a manner ...
Dory Previn: Surviving All Odds: Dory Previn
Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, December 1972
WHEN DORY Previn wrote: "I no longer plead with heaven or go rummaging in books for the answers to the questions life contains", she had ...
Joni Mitchell: A Tender Dignity
Guide by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, January 1973
ONE DAY, many years ago, Al Kooper went home with a blonde Canadian chick who used to hang out with the Blues Project. In the ...
Interview by David Rensin, Crawdaddy!, March 1973
LOS ANGELES – Bonnie Raitt is by nature a purposeful woman. On a personal level, she is attempting to forge a new ethic reaching beyond ...
Carly Simon, Mary Travers, Dory Previn: Record World Forum: Three Artists on the New Consciousness
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Record World, May 1973
Carly Simon, Dory Previn and Mary Travers are three major artists whose work and lives exemplify the independent role women are assuming in society. As ...
Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, June 1973
LEON WANTED US TO LIVE IN HIS HOUSE...WE WEREN'T INTERESTED NEEDLESS TO SAY ...
Review by Loraine Alterman, New York Times, July 1973
A Bland Carole King ...
Yoko Ono, Bette Midler: Bette Midler: Bette Midler (Atlantic); Yoko Ono: Feeling The Space (Apple)
Review by Loraine Alterman, New York Times, November 1973
No Torches for Bette and Yoko ...
Isis: Eight-Piece, All-Woman Band in Musical No-Man's Land
Report and Interview by Glenn O'Brien, Rolling Stone, November 1973
NEW YORK – An all-woman rock band, one that really cooks, seems to be both a contradiction in terms and a lousy pun. They've come ...
Yoko Ono: The Whole World Is My Mother-In-Law
Profile and Interview by Caroline Coon, unpublished, 1974
2012 NOTE: Tidying through my papers some days ago I found, at last, an interview I did with Yoko Ono at home in New York ...
Report and Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, February 1974
Being a rock star has its advantages, but the spotlight is usually only big enough for one person. Circus took a behind stage look at ...
Interview by Barbara Charone, NME, July 1974
ALL THE New York City rockers had come down to the Bottom Line to check out Rocket Records' latest entry, Kiki Dee. Elton John and ...
Dory Previn: Dory Previn (Warner Bros.)
Review by Loraine Alterman, New York Times, September 1974
The Perceptive Songs Of Dory Previn ...
Suzi Quatro: Elvis as Virgin Queen
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, November 1974
"I STILL USE laundromats, and one day I was walking to one carrying a bag of laundry. I had a hat on and sunglasses because ...
Fanny: Unnnghhh! Grunt, Slurp…
Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, NME, November 1974
LETS BE SEXIST for a coupla paragraphs. ...
Interview by Michael Gross, Gallery, 1975
WITH ALL THE noise, convulsions, legal maneuverings, and groundbreaking advances made by feminists in the last few years, women remain the underdog minority in the ...
Book Excerpt by Bruce Pollock, 'In Their Own Words' (Collier Books), 1975
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE came to prominence during the folk era, hoisted to underground approval on the virtue of her classic ‘Universal Soldier’ and her first album ...
Essay by Nick Kent, NME, January 1975
Question: what well-known biped possesses an upper-register vocalic system, is pleasant to look upon, and is almost universally misunderstood and/or patronised? Answer: any Rock 'n ...
Kiki Dee: More Than Opening For Elton
Profile and Interview by Michael Gross, Crawdaddy!, March 1975
NEW YORK – The first time Kiki Dee came to New York City, she was showcased by her newest record company, Rocket Records, at the ...
Lesley Gore: They Don't Own Her
Report by Dave Marsh, Let It Rock, July 1975
IN 1964, A seventeen-year-old freshman named Lesley Gore put out her first record, 'It's My Party (And I'll Cry If I Want To)'. It was ...
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, August 1975
IT'S FUNNY how some women are genteel yet others may be quite the opposite – yet still manage to retain their femininity. ...
Profile and Interview by Penny Valentine, Let It Rock, August 1975
WHEN SHE SINGS 15 year old girls run out of the audience, down the auditorium, arms raised in a two fisted salute. What they are ...
Joni Mitchell: Hostess Twinkies for Your Dreams
Live Review by Michael Gross, Swank, 1976
Joni Mitchell: Nassau Coliseum, NYC ...
Interview by Jim Esposito, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1976
Interviewed at the Airplane house in San Francisco, the chanteuse of psychedelia rambles in splendid style on her early days in the Great Society, writing White Rabbit, drugs and drink and much more.
File format: mp3; file size: 77.2mb, total interview length: 1h 24' 21" sound quality: ***
Review by Chas de Whalley, NME, February 1976
RONEE BLAKLEY was the star of Robert Altman's Nashville, if you remember, the film that was universally condemned by the inhabitants of Music City U.S.A. ...
Overview by Penny Valentine, Street Life, March 1976
THE NUMBER of women working in British music is pitifully small. You can count them on one hand. Why? ...
Gladys Knight: Things happen when you're a disciple of Buddah...
Interview by Cliff White, NME, May 1976
... but it helps if you're GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS. Here's how things are going, as told to CLIFF WHITE. ...
Patti Smith: The Field Marshall on Portobello Road
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, November 1976
"THIS ALBUM is I think much more feminine than the first album...the rhythm, it's more like ocean. The cuts that I love the best are ...
Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, '1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion', 1977
ONE OF THE arguments trotted out to minimize punk rock was that however good or bad the sound was live, it would be impossible to ...
Review by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, May 1977
THIS IS THE ALBUM we have been waiting for since Sandy left Fairport Convention for the second time at the end of 1975. Over six ...
Report and Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, July 1977
SANDY DENNY looked radiant. Yes, one is always supposed to say that about ladies when they're pregnant, but in this case it was true. She ...
Sandy Denny: Sandy Fights Back
Report and Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, November 1977
"IF I HAVE TO SING 'Matty Groves' one more time, I'll throw myself out of a window... I'll be doing a lot of stuff from ...
Report and Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, November 1977
THE HOUR OF MY VINDICATION is at hand. I'm sitting in the lobby of a London hotel waiting for the Runaways to descend from their ...
Joan Armatrading: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Cliff White, NME, November 1977
AS ANY regular user of London's Underground rail network can testify, not all of the strolling troubadours who jostled for recognition in the balmy '60s ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Siouxsie and the Banshees
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, December 1977
PREMISE: Record company executives have been skipping the brandy on their expense account lunches in their eagerness to sign up any band that can loosely ...
Millie Jackson: In Tune With The People
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, January 1978
Soul's upfront lady makes sure she stays on target by taking time and trouble to talk to the people and staying in touch with what's ...
Profile and Interview by Jon Savage, Sounds, May 1978
PATTI PALLADIN and JUDY NYLON came to Britain last year, made 3 remarkable singles (one with Eno) then split. Or did they? JON SAVAGE steps ...
Patti Smith on KSAN San Francisco (1978)
Interview by Howie Klein, Rock's Backpages Audio, May 1978
Ms Smith regales the listeners to KSAN, San Francisco, with stories about Tina Turner, Sandy Pearlman and the Clash; sings the praises of Fred 'Sonic Smith and Tom Verlaine; gives respect to Bill Graham. She also makes Public Service announcements, and comments on the commercials!
File format: mp3; file size: 81.9mb, interview length: 1h 29' 27" sound quality: ***
Interview by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, August 1978
IT IS A cruel irony that had she not been a junkie for thirteen of her forty years, Etta James would probably still be working ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, August 1978
BUFFY SAINTE MARIE used to have this song called 'I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again', but you won't find Elizabeth Barraclough or Carlene Carter ...
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, September 1978
In one of the very rare interviews she grants, Lady Soul gave this in-depth story to B&S' David Nathan at her beautiful Encino, California home. ...
Joan Armatrading: Perrier Water and Privacy: Joan Armatrading
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, October 1978
"LOOOK this way pet, wooood you dear," said the photographer in a voice fusing Andy Stewart and Larry Grayson. "Please pet". Fussing, fussing. ...
Runaways, The: The Runaways: And Now…The Runaways (Mercury)
Review by Ian Penman, NME, January 1979
THE TERMS are at once familiar and bizarre, charged with meaning and strangely vacuous: 'street,' 'action,' 'hungry and hot,' 'rock 'n' roll,' 'teenage,' 'weekend,' 'queen.' ...
Rachel Sweet: What Rachel Did Next
Report and Interview by Penny Valentine, Melody Maker, April 1979
Rachel Sweet may follow Tanya Tucker's career with particular interest, but she really wants to be Bruce Springsteen. PENNY VALENTINE followed her on a tour ...
Mo-dettes, The: The Mo-dettes: Fast, Loud, Pretty
Profile and Interview by Paul Rambali, NME, August 1979
MET THEM ON A Monday, the Coca Cola spilt over the tape machine, and my MRX2 Oxide 45 mins each side @ 1 7/8 i.p.s. ...
Review by Paul Morley, NME, September 1979
AS THE Slits sing-song: don't take it seriously. ...
Interview by Danny Baker, NME, October 1979
EMI: THREE LETTERS that have come to represent "the enemy" in rock'n'roll's war games. EMI House rambles like a country home with a thousand warrens ...
Girlschool: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's … Girlschool
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, November 1979
I MET GIRLSCHOOL in a pub called the Leather Bottle, which was appropriate because leather is what they wear and bottle is what they've got ...
Marianne Faithfull: Broken English (Island)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, November 1979
BEFORE WE get started on the music... ...
Annette Peacock: A British Rail Breakfast With The Artbreak Kid
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, December 1979
TIMING: a while ago someone asked Bob Geldof — famous vocalist and composer with the extremely well-known Boomtown Rats pop group — for his definition ...
Go-Go's, The: The Go-Go's: Ready Steady Go-Go's
Profile and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, April 1980
GO-GO'S: 1. Bouncing entertainment; choreographed Happy Pill; females showing a hell of a lot for little reward. 2. Hollywood pink-punk band; all of the above ...
Joan Armatrading: Me Myself I (A&M)
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, May 1980
JUST TO put new readers of my ongoing review of Joan Armatrading's work in the picture I should mention that I rather like this lady. ...
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, July 1980
IN THE STRANGE WAY it has at certain phases of your life, time is running backwards for Joan Armatrading. She's growing younger. To prove it ...
Grace Jones: This Year's Model
Interview by Mary Harron, Smash Hits, September 1980
Mary Harron meets The Height Of Fashion ...
Interview by Kris Needs, Rock's Backpages Audio, September 1980
Ms Bush talks about her recent (and only) tour – the practice, pleasures and fears of performing live; about her new (third) album Never For Ever; the 'paedophilia' allegations surrounding the song 'The Infant Kiss'; and ruminates on the pressures of success.
File format: mp3; file size: 28.6mb, interview length: 31' 16" sound quality: **
Ronnie Spector, Phil Spector: 'I Wasn't Even a Housewife': Ronnie Spector's true confessions
Report and Interview by Mick Farren, NME, September 1980
SHE WAS supposed to be promoting her album, but Ronnie Spector’s first solo album isn’t the kind of thing that’s about to stop the world ...
Slits, The: The Slits: And Lo, 'Three Wise Slits Take Their Temple To The West'
Report and Interview by Vivien Goldman, NME, December 1980
GAMES ON TRAINS ...
Connie Francis, Brenda Lee: Venus: The Role Of Women In Fifties Music
Overview by John Pidgeon, History of Rock, The, 1981
APART FROM the amiable and avuncular Bill Haley, the most memorable figures of the first years of rock'n'roll presented an aggressively sexual, flamboyant, even threatening ...
David Bowie: Bowie For Breakfast: Angie Bowie’s Free Spirit
Review by Cynthia Rose, NME, July 1981
David’s golden years get shredded as Angie spills half baked beans. ...
Grace Jones: In Between The Bumpers
Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, July 1981
Chris Salewicz goes behind the public face of Grace to discover that in the tall, exotic frame of a former model there's a little girl ...
Interview by Peter Silverton, Smash Hits, August 1981
"I must be the most boring person in the world..." sighs Chrissie Hynde. "What on earth is she on abut?" wonders Pete Silverton. ...
Pat Benatar: Hot L Baltimore's (Not Just) For Children: Nice Girl Finishes First & Demands Recount
Report by Richard Riegel, Creem, November 1981
COLUMBIA, MARYLAND, is a "planned community" nestled among scads of functional greenery, midway between Baltimore and Washington D.C. Columbia was laid out according to the ...
Nico, Velvet Underground: In The Nico Time
Interview by Chris Bohn, NME, Spring 1981
HEY-HO, is it really that time of the decade already? Once again Nico has surreptitiously floated into the public consciousness – just when she was ...
Rhoda Dakar: Being Boiled – Rhoda Dakar
Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, January 1982
2-Tone's follow up to 'Ghost Town' is equally timely and a good deal more controversial. The single is 'The Boiler' and its subject is rape. ...
Marianne Faithfull: Ses Liaisons Dangereuses
Interview by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, February 1982
"I'VE ALWAYS KNOWN who I was," she says in a raspy, Bette Davis voice. "Whether I could achieve to express that to everyone else was ...
Go-Go's, The: The Go-Go's: Go-Go's Of Your Dreams
Report and Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, December 1982
DEEP IN the soul of every writer lies a secret: what does the writer do to avoid writing? I'll empty my brain pan now: I ...
Grace Jones: Are You Ready For A Brand New (Disco) Beat?
Interview by Iman Lababedi, Creem, April 1983
IF I WAS writing in Australia for Tie Yer Kangaroo Down rock mag, or in Germany for Ach Tung – Der March Goes On, or ...
Lita Ford: From Runaway To Metal Goddess: Lita Ford's Got BLOOD If You Want It!
Profile and Interview by Iman Lababedi, Creem, August 1983
Out Of The Blue (Stepping Out) ...
Review by Leyla Sanai, NME, September 1983
OK, FORGET the drip through the roof. Forget the mortgage and the DHSS snoop halfway through the letterbox. Imagine a night out on the town ...
Carly Simon: Free, White, & Pushing 40
Interview by Nick Tosches, Creem, January 1984
"Maybe It Was My Big Mouth" ...
Bananarama: We All Broke Down And Cried
Interview by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, March 1984
The last eight months have been a "nightmare" for Bananarama. Ian Birch finds out what went wrong. ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, NME, April 1984
MOST EVERY year now Ms Jamesetta Hawkins – Etta to you – will at the behest of Dingwalls Boss (Goodman, that is) fly over ...
Linda Ronstadt: Performing Is Not My Gift
Report and Interview by Ben Fong-Torres, TV Guide, May 1984
SHE LOOKS SO darling, standing there on a Santa Barbara, Cal., stage in front of Nelson Riddle and his 43-piece orchestra, ready for the first ...
Girlschool: Staying After Girlschool
Report and Interview by Richard Riegel, Creem, May 1984
GIRLSCHOOL MEMBERS Kim McAuliffe and Gil Weston flash me quick smiles as we're introduced in their road manager's hotel room, and I'm relieved to note ...
Sade: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Max Bell, Times, The, August 1984
SADE IS CURRENTLY the hottest new voice in town. Her Diamond Life album has been highly praised and her jazz diva's image, allied to a ...
Rickie Lee Jones: The World According to Rickie Lee Jones
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, December 1984
RICKIE LEE Jones is telling a story on the radio: "In the dreamscape where you write, there are people who shadow you. Like I have ...
Bangles, The: The Bangles: Yesterday and Today
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, February 1985
THE 'HOUSE full' sign was proudly on display outside Boston's Paradise Theatre, a local haunt that had, so I was informed, fallen from favour by ...
Report and Interview by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, March 1985
IF IT'S TUESDAY, this must be Paris. How about Europe so far, girls? ...
Kate Bush: What Kate Bush Did Next
Interview by Max Bell, Sunday Express, Fall 1985
INQUIRIES ABOUT why Kate Bush has been off the recording scene for three years–an age, in pop–met with a chilly and defensive response from her ...
Madonna: 'Bruce Springsteen Was Born To Run, I Was Born To Flirt...'
Essay by Richard Cook, Sounds, February 1986
RICHARD COOK takes a manly look at the pop tart goddess, MADONNA, who has put sleaze and safety back into pop stardom ...
Interview by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, June 1986
No more Sammy's tits on page three! Unthinkable! More Sammy songs on Top Of The Pops! Even more unthinkable! While the world wrings its hands ...
Interview by Karen Schlosberg, Creem, October 1986
"YOU PICKED AN interesting time to visit." Michael J. Fox has his tongue planted firmly in cheek as he stands in the backyard of a ...
We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It
Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, November 1986
They sing! They dance! They make jokes! They play with bar-bells! They dye their hair! They talk in Brummy accents! They've got a new single ...
Review by John McCready, NME, November 1986
IT WAS Mark Smith of top pop group The Fall who, in a typical broadcast of dedicated anti-trendiness, announced that vegetarianism helped one leave the ...
Sandy Denny: Who Knows Where The Time Goes (Island)
Review by Nick Coleman, NME, Summer 1986
WHEN SHE DIED I was still preoccupied with the politics of holey jeans and why the Ramones were the perfect emblem of the beast Modern ...
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, January 1987
ANITA BAKER, the new queen of soul, discusses the dos and dont's of the bigtime with a sympathetic Caroline Sullivan. ...
Annie Lennox: The Right Stuff: Annie Lennox on Singers
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Q, February 1987
I NEVER HAD enough money to have a record player, so I never got into the habit ol buying records, and so my only real ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, July 1987
The Girl Bros. talk about their time as part of Prince's Revolution, and their then-new career as recording artists in their own right.
File format: mp3; file size: 28.6mb; Interview length: 31' 15"; sound quality: **
Fuzzbox: Girls Just Wanna Have Fuzz
Interview by Glenn O'Brien, Spin, August 1987
Face it. If the four women in Fuzzbox had called their album We've Got a MIDI-compatible Digital Sampling Device and We're Gonna Use It, it ...
Interview by Richard Cook, NME, November 1987
JAPANESE TOURISTS frantically snapping photographs of each other is a recurring scenario common to the lobbies of Europe's grandest hotels. Today is different. Stepping from ...
Girlschool: Nightmare at Maple Cross (GWR)
Review by Deborah Frost, Village Voice, November 1987
MOST ALL-GIRL BANDS are pretty stupid And not always for the same reasons most all-guy bands are – too much attitude, too little attitude, too ...
Sinead O'Connor: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, January 1988
SO, NINA SIMONE'S 'My Baby Just Cares For Me' – the clubland secret, the cult trophy – went High Street provincial, Top Ten Top Shop. ...
Sinead O'Connor: Skinhead And Scum-Stampers; A Short Sharp Shock
Interview by Neil Perry, Sounds, January 1988
That's how emancipated Irish singer SINEAD O'CONNOR dealt with a record company suggestion that she should 'tart herself up'. NEIL PERRY comes to terms with ...
Throwing Muses: Storm Troupers
Interview by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, March 1988
THROWING MUSES' REBUILDING OF POP'S DARK SIDE IS WINNING THEM LOTS OF NEW FRIENDS. PAUL MATHUR AMBLED ACROSS THE ATLANTIC TO TALK TO SINGER KRISTIN ...
T'Pau: Crystal Tipps, Kicks to Kill
Interview by Steven Wells, NME, March 1988
All hail t'purveyors of t'power and t'glory that is T'PAU. STEVEN WELLS meets up with Caz Decker in Berlin. Swoon. ...
Salt 'N' Pepa: Salt 'n' Pepa: Look Ma Top Of The World
Profile and Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, March 1988
SALT 'N' PEPA WILL DO ANYTHING TO HAVE EVERYTHING. WITH THEIR NEW SINGLE, 'PUSH IT', ACCELERATING UP THE AMERICAN CHARTS IT LOOKS AS THOUGH THEIR ...
Tracy Chapman: Tracy Chapman (Elektra)
Review by Len Brown, NME, April 1988
SHE COMES from the wilderness, as prophesised, with a voice like molasses, hair like an ink blot and a heartful of tears. She comes with ...
Joni Mitchell: Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, May 1988
She's danced to the beat of her own drum all the way from Laurel Canyon to uptown Los Angeles. Joni Mitchell talks about her life, ...
Toni Childs: Looking On The Morning Light: Toni Childs, A New Voice And A New Beginning
Interview by Gerrie Lim, Playboy, December 1988
A LONE VOICE of incandescent beauty amid a wilderness of disposable pop music. That's how I saw Toni Childs. ...
Interview by John McCready, Face, The, 1989
"ASK ME what you want, John. I can take it. I mean, what are you going to do — spank me?" ...
Sheena Easton: The Prime of Miss Sheena Easton
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, NME, January 1989
A star in the States and yet either a twee girlie singer or second-string Prince collaborator in her home country, SHEENA EASTON, courtesy of that ...
Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians: The Marquee, London
Live Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, February 1989
THE MESSY BEAT Angels were well and truly bushed after a week of post-Dali wassailing, but the sight of Edie Brickell's band was as startling ...
Essay by Paul Mathur, Spin, April 1989
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes ...
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, June 1989
WELCOME TO the Griffith Park Pony Rides. Assorted toddlers, most of them 2- or 3-something, are circling a dusty track, strapped onto tired ponies. Not ...
Roxanne Shanté: 'I Have Never Seen A Man Talk To An Ugly Woman. Never.'
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, NME, October 1989
There is nothing that ROXANNE SHANTE won't rap about and no limit to who she disses. Here she talks to PAOLO HEWITT about men, music ...
Kate Bush: In The Realm Of The Senses
Interview by Len Brown, NME, October 1989
The essence of sensuality and child-like wonder or screeching wood nymph? KATE BUSH steps back into the spotlight after four years of reclusive recording and ...
Rickie Lee Jones: Keeping Her Cool
Profile and Interview by Mark Cooper, Guardian, The, October 1989
Shot to stardom 10 years ago, Rickie Lee Jones has fought her way back – no less cool but much more confident. Mark Cooper reports ...
Joan Jett: Motorcycle Slut With The Mystic Cross: Joan Jett roars up the alley in Singapore
Report and Interview by Gerrie Lim, unpublished, December 1989
JOAN JETT is sitting in a dressing room a long, long way from home, and the perceptible sliver of anxiety in her voice suggests that ...
Suzanne Vega: Godmother Of New Age
Interview by Len Brown, NME, April 1990
Suzanne Vega was brought up as a Puerto Rican, attended the neo-legendary New York School Of Performing Arts and went on to become the sensitive ...
Whitney Houston: An Interview with Whitney Houston
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 1991
SO MUCH HAS BEEN written and said about Whitney Houston since she burst on to the recording scene in 1985 with 'You Give Good Love', ...
Babes in Toyland: Angry Young Women
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, 1991
ROCK AND ROLL is being hijacked by angry girls with electric guitars. Tired of playing airbrushed pop dollies for salivating male voyeurs, women on ...
Transvision Vamp: Whatever Happened To Baby James?
Interview by Betty Page, Vox, March 1991
Exploiter or exploited? Rock Bitch or just bitched at? Either way Wendy James just lurrves the attention – and the dosh. Betty Page probes for ...
Joni Mitchell: Joni Rides Home
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Vox, April 1991
JONI MITCHELL MAY HAVE CUT HER MUSICAL TEETH DURING THE ERA OF LOVE AND PEACE BUT SHE TAKES NONE TOO KINDLY TO COMPARISONS WITH TODAY'S ...
Kirsty MacColl: Kirsty In Control
Interview by Mark Cooper, Daily Telegraph, June 1991
Mark Cooper watches as Kirsty MacColl reluctantly prepares to meet the world ...
Review by Tom Graves, Rock and Roll Disc, August 1991
SOME PEOPLE are labouring under the mistaken notion that Pat Benatar is a rock vocalist. What she really is is a music video ...
Interview by Andy Gill, Q, September 1991
Collectors of happy endings, look no further. Bonnie Raitt's career was dumper-bound until a P45 from her record company inspired her to rediscover her musical ...
Comment by Betty Page, Vox, October 1991
YOU EXPECT IT FROM HEAVY METAL, BUT NOW RAP AND INDIE HAVE JOINED THE SEXIST ASSAULT ON women: LYRICS, SLEEVES, and lecherous behaviour at gigs. ...
Madonna: The Billion Dollar Lady's New Deal
Comment by Barney Hoskyns, Times, The, November 1991
THE NEWS THAT Madonna has just clinched a deal making her the highest-paid performer in the history of the pop industry only confirms what we ...
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages Audio, Fall 1991
From taking the morning train to having the look, Mat Snow probes Sheena Easton about her life in music, Esther Rantzen, Kenny Rogers, Prince and all.
File format: mp3; file size: 56.9mb, interview length: 1h 02' 09" sound quality: ***
Hole: Belting Out That Most Unfeminine Emotion
Interview by Simon Reynolds, New York Times, February 1992
SUSAN FALUDI, the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, said recently in a magazine interview that "anger is not something that's an ...
PJ Harvey: Scrumpy's Trusted Nut
Interview by Dele Fadele, NME, February 1992
Way out West Country! Cut off from television, newspapers and all your favourite bands, PJ HARVEY is brewing up an intense, sexual storm that's set ...
Groupies: Stars In Their Thighs
Report and Interview by Steven Wells, David Quantick, NME, March 1992
NME'S LOOK AT THE THINGS THAT GO HUMP IN THE NIGHT ...
Report and Interview by Sally Margaret Joy, Melody Maker, May 1992
To get on L7's shitlist, all you have to do is be a member of the Moral Majority or dis women. To get off the ...
Shonen Knife: Naughty But Knife
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, November 1992
Their songs have titles like 'Flying Jelly Attack' but Shonen Knife claim it's all serious stuff. As London succumbs to a Japanese arts invasion, Nick ...
Interview by Mark Petracca, Entertainment Weekly, 1993
THE LAST PERSON you'd expect pumping the stair master at your local "Y" would be Tori Amos, but lo and behold, there she was in ...
Sinead O'Connor: Crazy Baldhead
Comment by Adrian Deevoy, Q, January 1993
IT'S A PHILOSOPHICAL agenda that would make David Icke vibrate with envy. Consider Sinead O'Connor's current take on the state of play: 96 per cent ...
Eurythmics, Annie Lennox: Annie Lennox: Front Woman
Interview by Mac Randall, Musician, March 1993
CONGRATULATIONS ON your Grammy nominations. Are you making any bets on how you'll do? ...
Special Feature by Steven Wells, NME, March 1993
You've seen HUGGY BEAR smash up mainstream complacency on The Word, you've been baffled by a load of biased ranting on some kind of new ...
Huggy Bear, Bikini Kill: Riot Grrrl: The Riot Girls And Bender Boys Tour
Profile and Interview by Sally Margaret Joy, Melody Maker, March 1993
It really is happening! The Daily Star said so! Yup, one year after The Maker first reported on this new phenomenon, the whole world has ...
Interview by Mac Randall, Musician, April 1993
"WE'VE HAD a joke going recently," Aimee Mann says, "that the new album has three themes: despair, defeat and revenge." ...
Review by Betty Page, NME, April 1993
THE FIRST time, it gave me third degree burns. I was driving when the title track's soft murmur exploded into a rocket-thrusted motorcycle roar and ...
Whitney Houston: Down and Dirty
Interview by Anthony DeCurtis, Rolling Stone, June 1993
YOU'RE EXPECTING her to float delicately into the room, but Whitney Houston strides in with a purposeful air. She's dressed way down in purple stretch ...
PJ Harvey, Gallon Drunk: PJ Harvey: The Academy, New York NY
Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, July 1993
FROM GRUNGE'S "castration blues" to the glutinous gloom of Come/Red House Painters/Mazzy Star to tonight's support band Gallon Drunk (with their cliché-encrusted homage to Nick ...
Bruce Springsteen, Patti Scialfa: Patti Scialfa: Red-Headed Woman
Profile and Interview by Ian Birch, Q, August 1993
ABOUT AN HOUR and a half from New York going south down the New Jersey Turnpike and then east on the Garden State Parkway is ...
Babes in Toyland: Babes In Toyland: Rock And Roll Babes
Interview by Stephen Dalton, Vox, August 1993
Deposit your 'feminist rock' preconceptions at the door, pigeonhole fans. Babes In Toyland were playing raucous licks long before the Riot Grrrls left finishing school... ...
Janis Ian: Protest and Survive
Profile and Interview by Andy Gill, Q, October 1993
AT THE age of 42, Janis Ian is making a comeback (her second, or is it third?), which would be unexceptional save for the fact ...
PJ Harvey: P.J. Harvey: 4-Track Demos
Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Rolling Stone, November 1993
THE POP INDUSTRY loves to simulate authenticity, a trick that, like the manufacturing of fake antiques, puts demands on the consumer. It's hard to tell ...
10,000 Maniacs, Natalie Merchant: Natalie Merchant: Little Sister Syndrome
Interview by Andy Gill, MOJO, December 1993
MOJO: YOU'VE BEEN described as "interminably serious". Is that accurate? ...
Janis Joplin: Janis (Columbia/Legacy)
Review by Mark Cooper, MOJO, March 1994
DYLAN FELL OFF his motorcycle, The Beatles broke up and Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin paid the full price of ‘60s rock stardom ...
Voodoo Queens: Voodod Queens: Chocolate Revenge
Review by Ben Thompson, MOJO, March 1994
UNREPENTANT BAD GIRLS with a taste for culinary and bibulous excess, the Voodoo Queens have cannily put their career back on track with a debut ...
PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Björk: PJ Harvey, Björk, and Tori Amos: Hips. Lips. Tits. Power.
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, May 1994
Well, would you spill their pint? In the last 18 months, Polly Harvey, Björk, and Tori Amos have rogered the charts with their special brew ...
Review by Ian Birch, MOJO, June 1994
"I love Dusty Springfield. I wanted to name our daughter Dusty but I knew we couldn't because, I mean, Dusty Springsteen...She had a nice big, ...
Laurie Anderson: The Nerve Of Her
Interview by Gillian G. Gaar, Rolling Stone, June 1994
THE GENERAL PUBLIC MAY HAVE heard little from performance artist Laurie Anderson in recent years. But that's certain to change in 1994, a hectic year ...
Review by Susan Compo, MOJO, October 1994
AS NORMAN MAILER ONCE SAID, "ALL blondes are natural blondes." Look it up in any book of pop quotes and you'll probably find a picture ...
Marianne Faithfull Springs Eternal
Interview by Deborah Frost, BAM, October 1994
"Since AIDS, I've changed my attitude. Now I'm honored. I want to be part of the gay community and I am." ...
Elastica: From Hype To Eternity
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, October 1994
ELASTICA were voted Best New Band in our Readers' Poll almost before the band had released a note. Why? Because you could tell just by ...
Report and Interview by Paul Gorman, Music Week, 1995
CHER'S NEW ALBUM It's A Man's World may well have the most apt, albeit ironically stated, title of the year. For her first project for ...
Sheryl Crow: As Sheryl Crow Flies
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, January 1995
EIGHT YEARS BACK, a young music teacher from Kennett, a tiny Bible Belt town ("Twin Peaks. Three stop lights, one police station, one high school.") ...
Laura Nyro: Union Chapel, Islington, London
Live Review by Rob Steen, MOJO, February 1995
WHEN LAURA PLAYED MONTEREY, nerves and rushed rehearsals saw her flounder as the hairies waited for Hendrix. Tonight there are enough baldies in the pews ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, February 1995
The First Lady of Counry Rock on a life in music: from Tuscon to LA; the Troubadour scene; hanging out with Jim Morrison and Gram Parsons; exploring standards and Mexican music; singing, production and producers.
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 145mb, total interview length: 2h 28' 24" sound quality: **
Linda Ronstadt: Homecoming Queen: Linda Ronstadt
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, April 1995
Thirty years ago Linda Ronstadt left Tucson for the folk-rock Mecca of Los Angeles. Now the first lady of softly streamlined country returns to the ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, June 1995
POP IS BACK, rock is dead (again). That, at any rate, is one conclusion we could draw from the success of Bjork Gudmundsdottir. ...
Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Request, September 1995
IT'S AS IF Annette Funicello had grown up and become Janis Joplin. Just 11 years ago, Alanis Morissette was a cute, 10-year-old actress on Nickelodeon's ...
Kenickie: Kamikaze! Karaoke! Kenickie!
Interview by Caitlin Moran, Melody Maker, November 1996
KENICKIE may barnstorm through life like kamikaze karaoke kids, but there's sadness in their madness ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 1997
FEW WOMEN HAVE expanded the vocabulary of rock as bewitchingly as Kate Bush; among male stars, only Prince may have taken as many risks. Hounds ...
Dorothy Moore: Giving It Straight To You
Retrospective and Interview by Bill Carpenter, Goldmine, March 1997
MISSISSIPPI HAS probably been trashed more than any other darn state in the union. It's been called the poorest state (which sho' ain't a crime, ...
Laura Nyro: Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best Of Laura Nyro
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, June 1997
AT THE age of 21, she was the most sought-after writer in America, a one-woman hit factory, providing songs for everyone from Sinatra to Aretha. ...
Interview by David Quantick, Q, July 1997
They are the quite spicy girls. A long time ago, they were manufactured by a pair of svengalis. Since then, they've had lorryloads of hits, ...
Spice Girls, The: The Spice Girls: The Notorious Zig-A-Zig-Ah!
Profile by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, August 1997
THERE'S NO ducking it. The Spice Girls are undoubtedly the most successful British teenypop act. Their album, Spice, has sold over seven million albums in ...
All Saints: Post Spice Hip-Hop
Interview by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, August 1997
THERE ARE certain things in life you can be sure of. Rain on Bank Holidays, never having enough money, Alan Shearer getting injured when it ...
Hole: My Body The Hand Grenade (City Slang)
Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, October 1997
COURTNEY LOVE reigned supreme in 1995 – and didn't we know she knew it. Now, with the release off a new album, well, it's all ...
Origin of the Spices: From Riot Grrrl to Girl Power
Book Excerpt by Ben Thompson, Seven Years of Plenty (Victor Gollancz) , 1998
The riot grrrl/girl power liaison: from a whisper to a screen near you ...
Ani DiFranco: Just an Old Fashioned Girl (with Blue Hair)
Interview by Jeff Apter, nyrock.com, February 1998
JUST WHO is Ani DiFranco anyway? Doc Martin-clad punk-poet icon, do-it-yourself business guru, feminist folksinger: there are so many sides to this Buffalo girl from ...
Sarah McLachlan, Jewel: Lady’s Day: Lilith Fair
Report and Interview by Edward Helmore, MOJO, April 1998
AT RISK OF PROVOKING EITHER THE TRADITIONAL yawn or a punch in the face whenever it is suggested that this is the year of women ...
Tori Amos: From The Choirgirl Hotel (East West)
Review by Kit Aiken, Uncut, June 1998
Fourth album from singer/songwriter with a fan base of two million. ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, July 1998
Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty/Where Am I Going/Songbooks Three more re-releases from the undisputed Queen of UK pop-soul ...
Linda Ronstadt: Everlasting Linda
Profile and Interview by Debbie Kruger, Weekend Australian, July 1998
IT'S SUMMER IN TUCSON, around 38° C, and Linda Ronstadt is sanguine about the waterlilies sprouting in her pond. The rest of the grounds are ...
Sinead O'Connor: Eyewitness October 1992: America Slays Sinead O'Connor
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, September 1998
Two weeks after tearing up a picture of the pope on Saturday Night Live and receiving a lifetime ban from the US TV show, Sinead ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, October 1998
She hasn't taken heroin and she won't gossip about Eric Clapton, so what will she do? "People have needs," she tells Adrian Deevoy, darkly. ...
Interview by Terry Staunton, Uncut, December 1998
"IT'S THE teachers who are to blame, if you ask me. Probably more so than parents, because they're kinda paid to shape young minds — ...
Interview by Precious Williams, Big Issue, The, December 1998
NINA SIMONE is furious that there is no alcohol left in the house. It's not even 11 o'clock in the morning and yet the 65-year-old ...
Rock’n’Role: Are Singers The New Feminist Icons?
Overview by Lucy O'Brien, Guardian, The, December 1998
IN THE US, they call it the Third Wave – a new feminism for a new generation. It is fuelled by popular culture in general ...
Sheryl Crow: Not Much To Crow About: Sheryl Crow's Rockin The Globe Live (A&M DVD)
Review by Rick McGrath, Culture Court, 1999
I’VE GOT GOOD news and bad news for Sheryl Crow fans. The good news is Sheryl’s in fine voice on this live concert DVD. The ...
Marianne Faithfull: An Interview
Interview by Will Self, Independent on Sunday, 1999
THERE'S NOTHING much crasser in life than being told by someone, shortly after you've met them: "You really remind me of so-and-so..." It's bad enough ...
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, January 1999
It's million-selling records, a 24-hour media circus and a limo in every city for HOLE, but does Courtney Love want even more success? Oh yes... ...
Dusty Springfield: You Started Something: Dusty Springfield
Profile and Interview by Lucy O'Brien, Observer, The, February 1999
Dusty Springfield, now battling with cancer, is finally being recognized as the first queen of Britpop after 40 years in the business. ...
Britney Spears: Baby One More Time (Jive)
Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, March 1999
I WOULDN'T, actually. Jailbait. Pastels. Popsox. Mall rat. Sure, all the obvious jokes cover up the fact that this is a document of pure venality. ...
Missy Elliott: Missy In Action: The Divine Ms. Elliott
Interview by Ben Thompson, Daily Telegraph, May 1999
MISSY "MISDEMEANOR" Elliott is an infamously snappy dresser, so when she emerges from a discreet recess in her LA hotel room wearing nothing more elaborate ...
Alison Krauss, Me'Shell Ndegeocello: Sounds of Heartache: Alison Krauss and Me'Shell Ndegeocello
Essay by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, August 1999
IT WOULD BE hard to think of two female singers more different than Alison Krauss and Me'Shell Ndegeocello. Krauss, a straight European-American from the Midwestern ...
Dusty Springfield: 'That Noise Is the Joy…'
Retrospective and Interview by Ben Fong-Torres, allmusic.com, September 1999
IT WAS just one of those things. I interviewed Dusty Springfield for two hours in Beverly Hills one afternoon in May, 1973, for Rolling Stone. ...
Cher: Live At Arrowhead Pond, Anaheim, California, August 20th, 1999
Live Review by Erik Himmelsbach, Rolling Stone, September 1999
BY EMBRACING her inner Studio 54, Cher recently landed the biggest hit of her four-decade career with the dance-house thumper ‘Believe’. Her mammoth stage show, ...
Samantha Mumba: Gotta Tell You
Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 2000
FOLLOW THE ANALOGY: Britney is to McDonald's as Christina is to Burger King, as Jessica is to Wendy's as Mandy is to Dunkin' Donuts or ...
Britney Spears: Dear Diary: Britney Spears
Comment by Metal Mike Saunders, Village Voice, June 2000
NOVEMBER 3, 1998, was the release date of the '... Baby One More Time' CD single and 12-inch (w/ 'Autumn Goodbye' on the B side). ...
Laura Nyro: Oh My Love-Trumpet Soul: Laura Nyro's New York Tendaberry
Retrospective by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, August 2000
AND A GREAT tenderness came forth from the unforgiving streets of the East Side. It's easy to dislike Laura Nyro. Your first requirement is to ...
Carpenters, The: Karen Carpenter
Retrospective by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, August 2000
KAREN CARPENTER possesses such iconic value now — feminist totem, camp death-cult, Prozac Nation suffragette — it is increasingly difficult to assess her unique musical ...
Rickie Lee Jones: Life On The Edge
Interview by Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, August 2000
"EVERYBODY," Rickie Lee Jones sang on her 1997 album Ghostyhead, "starts out pure, starts out ridiculous, starts out beautiful..." And then? And then, says Jones ...
Emmylou Harris: Ghosts and Angels
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, December 2000
The spectres of a war hero father and a doomed country troubador haunt her music. Emmylou Harris tells Phil Sutcliffe why she still hasn't found ...
Björk, PJ Harvey: Bjork: Selmasongs; PJ Harvey: Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Review by Djuna Parnes, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
OUTSIDE OF Kid A, Thom Yorke made two significant cameo appearances in A.D. 2000. Both were on albums by dark, "difficult" women who’ve spearheaded change ...
PJ Harvey: Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, December 2000
Self-produced sixth album is curate's egg ...
Laura Nyro: Songs in the Key of Life: Laura Nyro's Angel in the Dark
Review by Richard Williams, Guardian, The, April 2001
THIS ALBUM IS incomplete, but so was Laura Nyro's life. It is the project on which she was working when she died of ovarian cancer ...
Destiny's Child: The Joys Of Child-ish Behaviour
Interview by Precious Williams, Evening Standard, April 2001
THE SASSIEST girl group in the world are slumped on a sofa lamenting the "awfulness" of how they look. Destiny's Child – Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly ...
Missy Elliott: Rhymes & Misdemeanours: Missy Elliott Gets Her Freak On
Interview by Amy Linden, Rock's Backpages, April 2001
THE EXPRESSION "It takes a village to raise a child" has quickly morphed from sage African proverb to the "Have A Nice Day" of social ...
Profile and Interview by Ian Watson, Sunday Herald (Scotland), October 2001
SHE DOESN'T SHUT UP. Present Gabrielle with a simple query and her mouth goes into overdrive. She hits the ground sprinting, talking so quickly she ...
Yoko Ono: Just imagine: Yoko Ono
Interview by Andrew Smith, Observer Music Monthly, November 2001
In the '60s, Yoko Ono married John Lennon and campaigned for peace in Vietnam. More than 30 years on, she's still irrevocably linked to her ...
Dee Dee Bridgewater: Sophisticated Lady: This Is Dee Dee Bridgewater
Interview by James Maycock, Pride, 2002
"DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER is very effervescent and very energetic and very optimistic and very positive," I'm informed. "Dee Dee Bridgewater has consumed my life." ...
Nico and The Marble Index: A Conversation with Danny Fields
Interview by David Dalton, Gadfly, 2002
WHEN THE MARBLE Index appeared in 1969 it seemed unplaceable, flying out of some timeless place, as if we were hearing from a possessed medieval ...
Retrospective and Interview by Colin Harper, Record Collector, 2002
"HOW CAN WE explain the phenomenon of Julie Felix?" mused Karl Dallas, Melody Maker's titan of folk, in a December 1965 concert review. "Clearly anyone ...
Pink: Go Ahead Pink, Make Our Day!
Comment by Steven Wells, NME, May 2002
Be afraid Britney, Gwen and Kylie: there's only one candidate to be the new Madonna ...
Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, May 2002
THERE'S A popular mythology out there that says that certain things–like pop divas and Fortune 500 companies–never die. ...
Linda Thompson: Miserable Old Sod Linda Thompson Returns as Exquisitely Sad as Ever
Interview by Mac Randall, New York Observer, July 2002
THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE who say that Linda Thompson is the greatest female rock singer alive. I'm not one of them-partly because I think her ...
Essay by Holly Gleason, Rock's Backpages, September 2002
THERE IT WAS ONE DAY – propped against my doorway in West Hollywood – a plain brown cardboard box like so many others. Anonymous. Almost ...
Björk: “In England they think I'm one of the Teletubbies”: Björk
Interview by Paul Lester, Guardian, The, October 2002
Björk looks back on two decades of music, fame and scrapping with the media. ...
Retrospective by Andria Lisle, MOJO, December 2002
"SOMETHING TOLD ME IT WAS OVER/When I saw you and here talking/Something deep down in my soul said, 'Cry, girl'/When I saw you and that ...
Interview by David Quantick, Word, The, 2003
DIDO LIVES in Islington, along with half the Labour Party, the entire cast of EastEnders and the late Arthur Mullard, who used to sit outside ...
Runaways, The: Runaways: The Runaways/Queens Of Noise/Live In Japan/Waitin' For The Night
Review and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, 2003
UNTIL THE ADVENT of Sunset Strip cherry bombers The Runaways, all-girl rock bands were invariably self-consciously butch and hairy apparitions with names like Birtha and ...
AUDIO: Blondie's Debbie Harry (2003)
Interview by Chris Roberts, Rock's Backpages Audio, July 2003
Elle ne regrette rien: La Harry on Blondie then and now, NYC then and now, on art and movies, on Chris Stein, and on the latest Blondie album The Curse of Blondie
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 64.7meg, total interview length: 1h 10' 38" sound quality: **
Mary J. Blige: The Ballad Of Mary J
Interview by Precious Williams, Scotland on Sunday, August 2003
MARY J BLIGE'S daunting reputation as a volatile, prickly diva has always threatened to eclipse her extraordinary vocal talent. Legend has it that her record ...
Retrospective and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, September 2003
"SHE'LL BE BIGGER than Olivia Newton John!" That's what incandescent young A&R man Michael Rosenblatt told his boss, Sire Records founder-owner Seymour Stein back in ...
She Bop II: Rock Chicks Fight Back
Comment by Lucy O'Brien, Guardian, The, September 2003
Lucy O'Brien reflects on her monumental history of the music business ...
Report by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, September 2003
Juggling a baby and a career is difficult enough for anyone – but how do you manage it when you're a pop star? Caroline Sullivan ...
Tywanna Jo Baskette: A Profile
Profile and Interview by j. poet, Harp, October 2003
NASHVILLE-BASED Tywanna Jo Baskette lives the life she sings about. ...
Macy Gray, Mya: Macy Gray: The Trouble With Being Myself/Mya : Moodring
Review by Carol Cooper, Village Voice, October 2003
BOTH WOMEN crouch nearly nude on their album covers, gazing with feral yet somehow fetal reproach at potential consumers, like naughty fairy changelings who've had ...
Kylie Minogue: The Butt Stops Here
Comment by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, November 2003
So she's 35, but does that really mean Kylie should cover up, asks Caroline Sullivan ...
Rickie Lee Jones: The Devil in Miss Jones
Profile and Interview by Andy Gill, Independent, The, January 2004
Rickie Lee Jones has always had her demons - and now she's living in the America of George Bush and Jeffrey Dahmer. ...
Peaches, Distillers, The: The Distillers and Peaches: When Brody met Peaches...
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, February 2004
THEY MAY have only met once before but within thirty second of being re-introduced backstage at London's Brixton Academy it's clear that Brody Dalle and ...
Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages Audio, March 2004
The big-voiced gal talks about her joust with breast cancer, her friendship with Elton John, and her latest album Anastacia.
File format: mp3; total file size: 32.3mb, total interview length: 35' 18" sound quality: ****
AUDIO: Alanis Morissette (2004)
Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages Audio, May 2004
On relationships, lesbianism and androgyny, predatory older men, sex, fear of and desire for fame, anxiety attacks, therapy and medication, the whole nine yards.
File format: mp3; total file size: 32.8mb, total interview length: 35' 49" sound quality: ***
Carly Simon: Reflections – Carly Simon's Greatest Hits
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, August 2004
THIS IS THE fifth Carly compilation in less than ten years (and, yes, one was imaginatively entitled Nobody Does It Better), during which time she ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2004
PRE-"YOU’RE SO Vain" and pre-marriage-to-James-Taylor, the leggy and large-mouthed Park Avenue Jewess made two pleasant 1971 albums of melodiously laid-back adult pop. LA-flavoured and sprinkled ...
Interview by Ken Scrudato, Filter, October 2004
SOME VELVET MORNING (or evening, perhaps) back in 1940, a child was born of a very, very famous father. SHE was doubtless a vision of ...
Sandie Shaw: Nothing Comes Easy (EMI)
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2004
AS STAGE GIMMICKS go, not wearing shoes is a pretty lame one, but it's what the tabloids of the '60s would inevitably focus on when ...
Judee Sill: Heart Food and Dark Peace: Judee Sill
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Observer, The, December 2004
This is an expanded version of "The Lost Child", published in The Observer Music Monthly. ...
Retrospective by Dan Gennoe, Q Icons, Fall 2004
THE EXECUTIVES at MTV must have thought God himself was shining a light on them. In 1984, for the first Video Music Awards, they needed ...
Marianne Faithfull: Marianne Faithful: Strong Poison
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, January 2005
INITIALLY MORE infamous than famous, Marianne Faithfull was known more for her extraordinary beauty and her liaison with Mick Jagger than she was for her ...
Debbie Harry: Encounter with a Stiletto: Debbie Harry in 1974
Memoir by Chris Charlesworth, Rock's Backpages, February 2005
EVERY TIME Bob Gruen called me he’d open the conversation with "What’s happening, man?" Of course it was me who should have been posing the ...
Slits, The: The Slits: The Distaff Side of Punk - The Slits Re-Released at Last
Retrospective by Mac Randall, New York Observer, February 2005
IF YOU ASK PEOPLE to name the most influential punk-rock bands of all time – even people who boast scarily high levels of pop-culture awareness ...
KT Tunstall, Dido: Dido et al: Music to Watch Girls Buy
Overview by Pete Paphides, Times, The, March 2005
Our correspondent casts a weather eye over the fleet of female singer-songwriters floating their sonic pedalos in the wake of Dido's mighty MOR steamship ...
Retrospective by Mick Houghton, Uncut, April 2005
UNTIL RECENTLY, Judee Sill and her two Asylum albums were all but forgotten. Her story is so tragic as to be nearly unbelievable, the antithesis ...
Laura Nyro: Lady Lightning: Laura Nyro
Retrospective by Richard Williams, Guardian, The, April 2005
"EXPERIENCED A catastrophe so profound that its effects would never quite fade" (Laura Nyro) ...
Yoko Ono: Profile: Yoko Ono, 70, New York City, N.Y.
Profile and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, July 2005
YOKO ONO is diminutive in size, but huge in spirit. A fearless avatar, she will attempt anything whether it’s topping the Billboard charts as a ...
Lil' Kim: The Naked Truth (Atlantic)
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, September 2005
IF TIMING IS everything, Lil' Kim's couldn't be much worse. ...
Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo Music, October 2005
WHEN MS DYNAMITE'S debut album was dismissed by some critics in 2002 as "tiresome finger-wagging", it seemed the erstwhile Niomi McLean-Daley was getting a rough ...
Kate Bush: Return of the Recluse
Profile and Interview by Adam Sweeting, Independent on Sunday, October 2005
PLENTY HAS HAPPENED in the twelve years since Kate Bush last released an album. Tory sleaze has morphed into New Labour; mobile phones and iPods ...
Shirley Bassey: Cardiff International Arena
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, Times, The, June 2006
SHE MAY BE OLDER than John Prescott and camper than Liberace, but Dame Shirley Bassey's sold-out homecoming show in Cardiff on Tuesday was greeted with ...
Dusty Springfield: Complete As and Bs
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, August 2006
OF ALL THE overused terms that blight today’s pop culture, "icon" surely grates the most. In these inane post-Warhol times, everybody is an icon and ...
Profile by Jason Gross, Creative Loafing, August 2006
ARE THERE ANY active old-school divas that we can still look up to? Cher? Retired. Tina Turner? Retired. Barbara Streisand? Her too. Joni Mitchell? Yep. ...
Lily Allen, Joanna Newsom, Amy Winehouse: Year Of The Woman
Overview by Jude Rogers, New Statesman, December 2006
At the beginning of 2006, the prospects looked bleak for strong, idiosyncratic female pop acts. Jude Rogers meets three remarkable artists who changed all that ...
Judy Dyble, Fairport Convention: Judy Dyble
Retrospective and Interview by Richie Unterberger, Record Collector, September 2007
IMAGINE BEING the original woman singer in the most esteemed British folk-rock group of all – only to be replaced, after just one album, by ...
PJ Harvey Steps into the Light
Interview by Robert Sandall, Sunday Times, September 2007
ON THE FACE OF IT, precious little has changed in the world of PJ Harvey in the 14 years since we first met. On that ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees: Siouxsie Sioux: Sans Banshees, Siouxsie Returns
Interview by Ken Scrudato, SOMA, October 2007
IT'S HARD TO recall a time when the scent of Armageddon has hung so heavy in the international air as it has during this, the ...
Marianne Faithfull: Come My Way
Sleevenotes by Tim Tooher, Rev-Ola Records, November 2007
THE ACCEPTED WISDOM regarding Marianne Faithfull is that in the 1960s she was the mere puppet of oft-considered shady, behind-the-scenes operators like Andrew Loog Oldham ...
Profile and Interview by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, November 2007
... and Lily, and Kate: there's a new star in town. Adele Adkins is only 19, but her voice has bewitched everyone from Jools Holland ...
Spice Girls, The: The Spice Girls: Never Mind The Bum Notes
Live Review by Jude Rogers, New Statesman, January 2008
The Spice Girls: O2 Arena, London ...
Adele, Duffy, Laura Marling: Adele, Duffy et al: This Year's Vintage
Report by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, January 2008
Caroline Sullivan on 2008's big female voices ...
Laura Marling: 'My songs are not pretty'
Interview by Jude Rogers, Guardian, The, February 2008
IN A RECENT POSTING on a music website, one of Laura Marling's growing army of fans described her output as "pretty folk songs about boys". ...
Interview by Jude Rogers, Lipster, The, March 2008
BACK IN OCTOBER last year, in the misty early days of The Lipster, I e-mailed Björk's publicist, telling him about the plans for our website, ...
k.d. lang: kd lang: Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, FL
Live Review by Holly Gleason, Harp, March 2008
KD LANG WALKED onstage, guitar on her back and glided effortlessly into 'Upstream', a song about the nature of life, the struggle of human nature ...
Dolly Parton: Warmth, Wonder and Wisdom: Dolly Parton, O2 Arena, London
Live Review by Jude Rogers, New Statesman, July 2008
The superstar country singer proves her worth as a feminist icon ...
Delia Derbyshire, BBC Radiophonic Workshop: In Praise of Delia Derbyshire
Profile by Jude Rogers, Guardian Unlimited, July 2008
Last week's news that lots of Derbyshire tapes had been found and digitised marked the latest stage in her recovery as a musical, and feminist, ...
Katy Perry: On Music: Katy Perry — Voice of No Angel
Comment by Jude Rogers, Guardian, The, August 2008
IT'S BEEN quite a week for sex, music and me. Take last weekend. There I was at the Big Chill festival, hot-browed and clammy-palmed, watching ...
Poly Styrene, X-Ray Spex: The Return of Punk's First Lady: Poly Styrene
Profile and Interview by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, November 2008
Thirty years after singing of bondage and toothpaste, via a stay at a psychiatric hospital and motherhood, Poly Styrene is back on stage, without X-Ray ...
Mo-dettes, The: The Mo-dettes: The Story So Far (Cherry Red)
Sleevenotes by Alex Ogg, Cherry Red, December 2008
THE MO-DETTES first emerged towards the end of 1978, after guitarist Kate Korus (aka Katherine Corris, formerly of the Slits) and drummer June Miles-Kingston met ...
Profile by Jude Rogers, Observer, The, December 2008
She inspired Dylan, was pals with Ella, and was due to play at Obama's inauguration: Jude Rogers on Odetta Holmes. ...
Lady GaGa, La Roux: Slaves To Synth
Report and Interview by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, December 2008
The male guitar band is dead. The future is electro, female, DIY – and very in your face. Caroline Sullivan talks to the solo acts ...
Slits, The: The Slits: An extract from Typical Girls; The Story Of The Slits
Book Excerpt by Zoë Street Howe, Omnibus Books, 2009
NOTE: Zoe Street Howe managed to interview all four original members of The Slits – Ari Up, Viv Albertine, Tessa Pollitt and Paloma 'Palmolive' Romero ...
Florence and the Machine, Lady GaGa: On Music: Lady GaGa and Florence Welch
Comment by Jude Rogers, Guardian, The, January 2009
Lady GaGa and Florence Welch have been hailed as the new queens of pop. But why pretend they're anything more than cheap imitations? ...
Interview by Evelyn McDonnell, Interview, April 2009
TALKING TO MariaTALKING TO Marianne Faithfull over the day's first coffee is a bit like waking up for cocktails. She's alert and energetic, but chicly ...
Laura Nyro: Dark Angel: The Stone Soul Genius of Laura Nyro
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, September 2009
I keep hearin' daddy through his grave:"Little girl, of all the daughters,You were born a woman,Not a slave."('The Confession', 1968) ...
Huggy Bear, Bikini Kill: The 10 Myths of Riot Grrrl
Comment by Everett True, Guardian, The, September 2009
YOU READ a lot of stuff about Riot Grrrl, most of which isn't true. Things such as ... ...
Florence and the Machine: Florence and The Machine: Mental Machine Music
Interview by Ian Gittins, Wonderland, November 2009
POP SHOULD ALWAYS be poetic, not prosaic. ...
Raincoats, The: The Raincoats: The Raincoats (We ThRee)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, November 2009
THIS 1979 ROUGH TRADE album is a period piece and a sacred artefact, not least because of its subsequent endorsement by an "extremely unhappy, lonely ...
Profile and Interview by Johnny Black, Rock'n'Reel, November 2009
DESPITE ALL HER best efforts to stick a spike in the wheel of success, Laura Marling is fast-becoming the most talked-about young singer-songwriter of recent ...
Ellie Goulding: First Sight: Ellie Goulding
Guide by Jude Rogers, Guardian, The, November 2009
WHO IS SHE? The 21-year-old future of pop, if you believe the hype. Born in Hereford and brought up in rural Wales, she now makes ...
Regina Spektor: Academy, Birmingham
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, Times, The, December 2009
IT APPEARS REGINA SPEKTOR has finally crossed over from word-of-mouth cult to left-field star, judging by her rapturous reception at a packed Birmingham show on ...
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, December 2009
THE FALL IS A PRETTY comprehensive break-up album. Norah Jones has broken up with Lee Alexander, for eight years her boyfriend and double-bassist and, on ...
Rickie Lee Jones: Album by Album: Rickie Lee Jones
Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, December 2009
THOUGH SHE will always carry the pop albatross that was her Top 5 hit 'Chuck E's in Love' (1979), Rickie Lee Jones remains one of ...
Interview by David Nathan, SoulMusic.com, January 2010
Teena picks her favourite seven tracks from her own back catalogue, and selects three by other artists that mean the most to her.
File format: mp3; file size: 72mb; Interview length: 1h 18' 39"; sound quality: ***
Interview by Johnny Black, Rock'n'Reel, March 2010
"I DON'T OWN MANY THINGS," Laura Veirs tells me. "I'm not a things person." ...
Patti Smith: On Mapplethorpe and more: Patti Smith
Profile and Interview by Edward Helmore, Vogue, March 2010
WITH THE POSSIBLE EXCEPTION of her hero Bob Dylan, no one has perfected the look of the downtown bohemian poet as comprehensively as Patti Smith. ...
Runaways, The: The Runaways: Wild Thing — How Sandy West Was Lost
Retrospective by Evelyn McDonnell, L.A. Weekly, March 2010
ON A SUMMER day in 1975, a 16-year-old girl carrying a Silvertone guitar took four public buses from Canoga Park to a two-story house in ...
Runaways, The, Kim Fowley: Sex sells: The Girl Band That Changed Pop Forever
Retrospective by Chris Salewicz, Independent, The, March 2010
IN EARLY OCTOBER 1976, the Runaways, an all-girl five-piece from Los Angeles, played a sell-out show at London's Roundhouse, their debut date in the UK. ...
Throwing Muses, Le Tigre, Joan Jett, Kristin Hersh: What Happened To Angry Female Music Stars?
Comment by Jude Rogers, Guardian, The, March 2010
Are there any angry women left in rock and pop? Joan Jett, riot grrrl figurehead Kathleen Hanna and others talk about where it went wrong ...
Karen Elson: The Ghost Who Rocks
Interview by Ken Scrudato, BlackBook, May 2010
IT'S HARDLY likely you've ever had occasion to look it up, but there are, to be sure, no direct flights from Manchester to Nashville. But ...
Bikini Kill: Sara Marcus: Girls to the Front
Book Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, October 2010
BROOKLYN-BASED writer and musician Sara Marcus deserves a medal just for daring to write a book about Riot Grrrl, the fiercely uncompromising feminist movement of ...
Slits, The: Memories Of Ari Up
Memoir by Adam Blake, Rock's Backpages, February 2011
AT THE START OF September 2005 I moved into a new place: a rather Agatha Christie-esque 1930s apartment block at the posh end of Ladbroke ...
Live Review by Ben Thompson, Sunday Telegraph, March 2011
ON THE LEFT of the Limehouse Troxy stage stands PJ Harvey – enrobed in one of her Belgian fashion confederate Ann Demeulemeester's trademark pristine, shroud-like ...
Ellen Willis: Out Of The Vinyl Deeps – Ellen Willis on Rock Music (University of Minnesota Press)
Book Review by Evelyn McDonnell, New York Times, June 2011
WOODSTOCK WAS A RIP-OFF. Creedence Clearwater Revival eclipsed the Rolling Stones. Bob Dylan struggled with identity. Janis Joplin "was not so much a victim as ...
Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj: Staples Center, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, June 2011
Haters Go Home: Britney Dominates L.A. Show ...
Obituary by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, July 2011
Singer with a soul-steeped voice whose instantly successful Back to Black album reflected her tormented experience of love ...
Rickie Lee Jones: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Rob Steen, Rock's Backpages, November 2011
FIRST, A HEALTH WARNING: if you are prone to cringe, foam or rage at reviews that put emotion first and last, and make no attempt ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, November 2011
LESLIE FEIST'S career path has been a zigzag. The Nova Scotia-born, Toronto-based artist played guitar with rapper Peaches (who nicknamed her Bitch Lap Lap) and ...
Florence and the Machine: Ceremonials
Review by Kate Allen, idolmag.co.uk, November 2011
BROKEN-HEARTED women have made the three biggest pop albums, of the 21st century: Back To Black, Lungs and 21. And so it falls to Florence ...
Retrospective and Interview by Bruce Pollock, brucepollock.com, December 2011
ONE OF THE MOST enigmatic and evocative and emotionally intense songwriters ever to hit the Top 40, Laura Nyro's career survived numerous dips and bends. ...
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's women problem
Comment by Evelyn McDonnell, salon.com, December 2011
DO THE MATH: Out of the 11 new members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2012, one — Laura Nyro — ...
Dory Previn: Remembering Dory Previn
Memoir by Loraine Alterman, Rock's Backpages, February 2012
MY DEAR FRIEND of nearly 40 years, Dory Previn, died last week. She was a great songwriter who exposed her deep feelings about love ...
Retrospective by Don Snowden, Rock's Backpages, March 2012
THE ORIGINAL TITLE for this piece was "Ticked Off at a Tick". The reason being that I spent more than a few years operating under ...
Timi Yuro: That Time Of Yuro: Timi Yuro
Retrospective by Steven R Rosen, blurt-online.com, April 2012
ANY LIST OF proto-feminist Top 40 hits of the 1960s would have to include Timi Yuro's 1962 'What's A Matter Baby' along with Lesley Gore's ...
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, June 2012
"TEA ANYONE?" says Rumer from the doorway of her beach hut. "Plenty of sandwiches left." Dazed by the mad March sun, her audience of biz ...
Pussy Riot: The Riot Girls' Style
Comment by Vivien Goldman, New York Times magazine blogs, August 2012
IT HAS BEEN a shock to see the bravely smiling faces of three girls from the Russian punk collective Pussy Riot locked in a glass ...
Aimee Mann: The Discreet Charm of Aimee Mann: An Interview
Interview by Martin Colyer, Rock's Backpages, September 2012
A freewheeling chat, taking in Mann's new Charmer, her talented collaborators, reality TV, turning up the treble, Laura Linney's focus, Jack Kerouac's drying-out and women's ...
Madonna: Thoughts On Madonna's MDNA Tour in America
Live Review by Carol Cooper, Rock's Backpages, September 2012
AS I WRITE THIS Thursday night, I can hear Madonna singing from Yankee Stadium through the window of my Harlem apartment. ...
Lana Del Rey: An American Nightmare: Lana Del Rey Live
Live Review by John Calvert, Quietus, The, September 2012
I MET HER last year. She talked about loneliness and how she never had any time for religion, until she got into some trouble in ...
Martha Wainwright: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, December 2012
AMONG THE prodigal polymath musicians of the Wainwright-McGarrigle clan, Martha seems destined to come second to her brother Rufus. Among the prodigal polymath musicians of ...
Rosanne Cash: Union Chapel, London
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, Times, The, December 2012
A HOST OF FACTORS, including brain surgery, have conspired to keep Rosanne Cash away from London for the last six years. Returning to a full ...
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